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Final
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| Team |
W |
L |
+/- |
| Argentina |
84 |
0 |
0 |
| Italy |
69 |
0 |
0 |
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Bronze Medal
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| Team |
W |
L |
+/- |
| USA |
104 |
0 |
0 |
| Lithuania |
96 |
0 |
0 |
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5th Place
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| Team |
W |
L |
+/- |
| Greece |
85 |
0 |
0 |
| Puerto Rico |
75 |
0 |
0 |
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7th Place
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| Team |
W |
L |
+/- |
| Spain |
92 |
0 |
0 |
| China |
76 |
0 |
0 |
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Semifinals
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| Team |
W |
L |
+/- |
| Argentina |
89 |
0 |
0 |
| USA |
81 |
0 |
0 |
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| Italy |
100 |
0 |
0 |
| Lithuania |
91 |
0 |
0 |
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Quarterfinals
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| Team |
W |
L |
+/- |
| ESP - USA |
94 |
102 |
0 |
| LTU - CHN |
95 |
75 |
0 |
| ITA - PUR |
83 |
70 |
0 |
| GRE - ARG |
64 |
69 |
0 |
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9th Place
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| Team |
W |
L |
+/- |
| Australia |
98 |
0 |
0 |
| N. Zealand |
80 |
0 |
0 |
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11th Place
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| Team |
W |
L |
+/- |
| Ser & Mon |
85 |
0 |
0 |
| Angola |
62 |
0 |
0 |
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Group A
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| Team |
W |
L |
+/- |
| Spain |
5 |
0 |
+56 |
| Italy |
3 |
2 |
+30 |
| Argentina |
3 |
2 |
+18 |
| China |
2 |
3 |
-79 |
| Ser & Mon |
1 |
4 |
-11 |
| N. Zealand |
1 |
4 |
-14 |
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Group B
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| Team |
W |
L |
+/- |
| Lithuania |
5 |
0 |
+54 |
| Greece |
3 |
2 |
+46 |
| Puerto Rico |
3 |
2 |
-1 |
| USA |
3 |
2 |
+29 |
| Australia |
1 |
4 |
-28 |
| Angola |
0 |
5 |
-100 |
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Argentina won the Gold Medal in Athens 2004 after beating Italy with the score 84-69. USA took the Bronze medal after winning 104-96 against Lithuania.
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By Oz Porat
The list of Olympic Gold medal winners in Basketball is not a long one and it includes United States, The Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and now ? Argentina.
After taking Gold medal in Football, Argentina completed a "double" and took the Gold medal in Basketball with a victory ove 
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By Vytautas Kaminskas
USA isn't leaving the Olympics without a medal. They defeated Lithuania, and didn't let them to take the fourth bronze medal in a row, though it was close to happen.
This game can be counted into the United States-Lithuania series in last Olympics. Anyway, this time the Amer
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By Milan Lazarevic
Greek National team won 5th place on this year?s Olympic Games as host team. It is very important for European basketball that this team is among first 5 because of importance of Greek basketball in Europe in this moment and in history. In the moment wh
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By Milan Lazarevic
Well, this result is not a real picture of Spain capabilities that is, of course, sure. Angry, sadness, maybe rage ? didn?t disappear from their hearts after losing in quarter-final duel. Mario Pesquera was broken on press conference, after that match, when he was saying that it i
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By Vytautas Kaminskas
Can you believe that? We saw something similar to the 2004 European champioship for youth in Brno, Czechia, when everybody expected the final to be Greece and Lithuania, but the two teams fought only for the third place.
The two super-teams of the tournament, Lithuania and the U
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By Oz Porat
We all felt that it's going to happen in one way or another, but now it is official ? USA wont take Gold medal in this Olympic, simply because it is not the best team in this tournament.
Argentina made an historic win which means that USA won't take Gold medal for the first time in t
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By Jakub Wojczyński, www.polskikosz.pl
Argentina won an evening thriller before over 14000 fanatic Greek supporters and advanced to the semifinals. They should say big "Thank you!" to Fragiskos Alvertis, who missed key shot few seconds before the end.
Argentinians started the game very w
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By Milan Lazarevic
Match after match and Italy is in semi-final. That was probably their goal for these Olympic Games, but it must be known that Italy was first team who started with preparing for Olympic tournament. They played on tournament in Genoa (we wrote about that tourna
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By Vytautas Kaminskas
China didn't make two huge surprises in three days. After a sensational victory over Serbian and Montenegro, they weren't able to stop the co-favorites of the tournament - Lithuania. The European champs once and again showed what for they came to Athens. They became the second se
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By Oz Porat
Spain came to the game without any fear from team USA and showed it during the entire game, the Americans tried to act like they don't feel nervous about it either but they knew that if they will loose again, they could say farewell to the Gold medal and to expect a cruel welcome when they will
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By Oz Porat
The preliminary round is over and the last day gave us 8 teams who are one step closer to the Gold, and 4 other teams who had to fight for their ranking.
5 players with double figures helped Greece to recover from its loss to Lithuania and to beat Puerto Rico by th
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By Milan Lazarevic
Zeljko Obradovic said, just after lost against China, that he will be available for all questions on press conference in Wednesday. There were so many questions, so many answers, so many interesting thoughts. Captain of the team, Dejan Bodiroga, was with him, just as Dej
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By Jakub Wojczyński, www.polskikosz.pl
Two old rivals met in game of 9th place at the Olympics. This time Australia beat New Zealand 98-80 thanks to 30 points from Shane Heal. Blond hair point guard hit nine shots from outside the line, what's tournament record. Aussies had sixteen 3-pointers and le
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By Vytautas Kaminskas
If before the Olympics somebody said that world champions Serbia and Montenegro will have to play for the 11th place, he would be simply called a fool. Even now, most of people in Serbia just can't believe in the things happening in Athens. Their team, even without some important playes
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By Vytautas Kaminskas
The qualification round of the Olympic basketball tournament has just finished. The tournament inculded 12 world-best national teams, 144 highest-level players. The first days of the Olympic games gave as lots of beautiful, quality basketball, great runs and dramatic endings with specta
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By Vytautas Kaminskas
This should have been an important game for both teams. But the previous results on the same day changed the situation. The Greeks, playing at home, had no right to loose, while Puerto Rico didn't look to care about the game. And there was a reason. Italy unexpectedly defeated
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By Vytautas Kaminskas
Another spectacul game in group A took place on the last day of the first round of the Olympic basketball tournament. Argentina had a great, just perfect chance to win the game, but Carlos Delfino, the young star of the Argentinian team, wasn't cold-headed enough to finish it properly.
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By Milan Lazarevic
?Good bye my love, good bye? ? one old Greek singer sang long time ago? We have on Serbian language one word ?BRUKA?? it is hard to translate on English, maybe I can try with ?Shame?, but ?BRUKA? is much worst? What to say? In Serbia we see all this as
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By Vytautas Kaminskas
The game was already decided before it started. Nobody thought the US team could loose the game considering to their improvement they made form the first day of the tournament. Angola also didn't look to believe in their success in this game, and, having no chance to participate in the
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By Vytautas Kaminskas
Before the game, everything was clear for both teams. Lithuania, even if they lost the last game, had already secured the first place in group B. While knew, that their chances to get to the quarter-finals can be called at least unreal. Even if the Australians won again
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By Milan Lazarevic
Well, what to say? the best team till now on Olympic tournament (with Lithuania) showed that they had more then simple basketball quality, showed that in situation when everyone watched this game to see will Spain let New Zealand to win, and on that way eliminate
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By Milan Lazarevic
After debacle against Lithuania , Greece made crucial step and won against Angola. This win was expected, even Angola had some theoretic chances to qualify for quarter-finale. But, basket difference is so huge? it is obvious that Greek players were so motivate
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By Oz Porat
Sydney, 29 September 2000 ? Sarunas Jasikevicius goes for a win but misses a 3-pointer with the buzzer in the semifinals against the "Dream Team" and loose the game with the score 85-83.
Athens, 21 August 2004 ? Sarunas Jasikevicius and Lithuania meet USA again, this time Jasi
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By Oz Porat
For the first time since NBA players started to play in the National Team, USA was not the favorites in a game. Sarunas Jasikevicius was the man in money time, scored 28 points with 7 triples and lead Lithuania to a 94-90 win over USA.
In one week, the Americans tied
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By Vytautas Kaminskas
China basketball team won't continue their way to the Olympic medals. They lost the decisive game for them, and not just lost, but were crushed by the Italians. China was looking hopless during all the tournament, winning only against New Zeland, but they still had
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By Jakub Wojczyński, www.polskikosz.pl
Pero Cameron (photo) 3-pointers almost gave New Zealand win over favorites from Argentina. But the hero of the day was Luis Scola, who grabbed deciding rebound and made key free throw.
Phil Jones scored 22 points during three quarters a
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By Milan Lazarevic
Well, sad story for Serbian basketball continues, and Spain, once more, showed incredible character and won in dramatic ending, this time against SCG. This was another bad, bad morning for Serbian basketball ? and now they are in difficult position. Only by a touch o
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By Oz Porat
Some Australian fans had today (August 21) a little Deja-vu in Helliniko Arena while they saw their National Team leading threw almost the entire game, just like the game against USA, and loosing at the end, just like the game against USA.
This time the opponent was Puerto Rico
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By Vytautas Kaminskas
What a performence, what a game. Just unstopable!
The late evening and Helliniko arena became a nightmare for the Greek fans. The Greeks had big hopes after a good start in the tournament. Even in Lithuania, nobody expected that their national team could play such a game with <
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By Oz Porat
The 3rd day kept delivering unexpected results and thrilling games - Lithuania and Spain still undefeated while the USA looked a bit better in the 4th quarter against Australia, the problem is that it looked terrible in the other three quarters?
3 minutes to the end of the game, Serbia and Monten
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By Jakub Wojczyński, www.polskikosz.pl
Argentina had no problem with beating China in the next game of Olympic Tournament Group B. They showed many spectacular plays and won easily 82-57.
China opened the game 4-3 after Liu Wei (8 pts in first quarter) and Yao Ming baskets, but it
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By Vytautas Kaminskas
Puerto Rico had a very hard game against motivated Angola. As some specialists predicted, after a great start against two world grands United States of America and Lithuania, Puerto Rico just couldn't concentrate for playing against the outsider of the group
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By Jakub Wojczyński, www.polskikosz.pl
US Team got second victory at the Olympics, but although they met probably one of the weakest teams of the tournament, it wasn't easy win. Australia showed no respect against NBA stars and was leading during 3 quarters.
Shane Heal, Brett Maher
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